NEWS TIPS newsroom@tbw.com.au NEWS 3 Bright idea approved MOUNT Gambier City Council has given the go-ahead for staff to seek design and construction tenders for lighting around the Blue Lake. Council has allocated $450,000 in its draft 2014-15 budget for the major project. At council’s recent full meeting, elected members fully backed the plan. Council staff will also investigate grant funding opportunities for the project, which will see 2.6km of solar lights installed around the lake. WATTLE RANGE COUNCIL GRAND PLANS: A provisional blueprint for the laundry building. Demolition budget bonus Surplus funds put laundry building plan ahead of schedule process.” SANDRA ORELLO EWS TIPS newsroom@tbw.com.au NEWS 3 Bright idea m@tbw.com.au NEWS 3 Bright idea approved MOUNT Gambier City Council has given the go-ahead for staff to seek design and construc- tion tenders for lighting around the Blue Lake. Council has allocated $450,000 in its draft 2014-15 budget for the major project. At council’s recent full meeting, elected members fully backed the plan. Council staff will also investigate grant funding opportunities for the project, which will see 2.6km of solar lights installed around the lake. WATTLE RANGE COUNCIL GRAND PLANS: A provisional blueprint for the laundry building. Demolition budget bonus Surplus funds put laundry building plan ahead of schedule process.” SANDRA ORELLO sandra@tbw.com.au sandra@tbw.com.au City Council with the old laundry building on the former hospital site this financial year using $100,000 surplus funds from the demolition works. With green grass now blanketing the site and the council taking back possession of the area from the demolition contractor, council will throw its efforts into restoring the unique building. Council has already spent $2.35m on the project, with $500,000 earmarked to be poured into the site next financial year. The old laundry building - which is the only remnant of the former hospital left standing on the site - is earmarked to be transformed into the city’s largest outdoor pavilion. Chief executive officer Mark McShane said the surplus funds would bring some of the beautification and laundry refurbishment works forward, rather than waiting for next financial year. He said around $700,000 overall was expected to be spent at the site. “By bringing the works forward, we can start it early to get the laundry to the stage it can be used,” Mr McShane told a recent council committee meeting. But Cr Merv White revealed his dissent in the meeting and triggered debate about whether the project should go ahead. “I am very surprised it actually got through council. In different circumstances it would not have got through,” said Cr White, referring to the tight vote at council. The veteran councillor urged council not to spend the surplus $100,000 on the old laundry building this financial year. “I don’t think the $100,000 should necessarily go to the laundry,” said Cr White, who explained he had yet to see official plans for the building’s refurbishment. “It should at least go to the budget process to be debated. I am not happy about the But Cr Biddie Shearing urged councillors to move ahead with the refurbishment. “I would rather see it improved than what it is now,” Cr Shearing said. Meanwhile, council engineering manager Daryl Morgan said the old hospital demolition had been completed “on time and on budget”. He said it was likely the project to date would be completed with between $100,000 and $150,000 under budget. Mr Morgan said this money could be allocated to start the laundry refurbishment this financial year. “Rather than leaving the money there and burdening the next budget, we could get on with it,” he said. Mount Gambier hosts major health study update During next week’s semi- SOUTH EAST residents participating in a study into regular aspirin intake will be updated on the study’s progress next week. Representatives of the Aspree study will visit Mount Gambier on Wednesday, April 30 to conduct a seminar. More than 160 people over the age of 70 in the Mount Gambier area are participating in the study by Fitzgerald’s FISH SALES Market Direct Retail & Factory Outlet This Week’s Specials Wild Barramundi ................$29.90kg Flathead Fillets ...................$27.50kg Butterfi sh ............................$19.00kg Blue Grenadier ...................$19.90kg Whole Bream ......................$18.00kg Fresh Sardines ......................$6.50kg either taking a small dose of aspirin or a placebo each day. Over 16,000 people across Australia and parts of the USA currently participate in the study, and it is hoped the number can grow to 19,000. Participants are required to continue this tablet intake until the study finishes in 2017. The data will then be analysed and the findings made available by 2018. nar, health providers will be presented with plaques to recognise their cooperation with the study, which requires annual health checks on each participant. For more information on the seminar or the study, call 1800 728 745 or email aspree.rsvp@monash.edu with the words “Mount Gambier update” subject line. in the Police nab alleged drink driver twice in two hours A MOUNT Gambier man was caught by police drink driving twice in two hours early yesterday morning. The 31-year-old’s vehicle was first intercepted at 12.50am on Commercial Street West when he allegedly returned a blood alcohol reading of 0.076. Police issued an expiation notice for drink driving and a notice that prevented him from driving for six hours. Less than two hours later, at 2.35am, the same man was driving the same car on Suttontown Road. 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Further information on Councils Animal Management Plan and draft By-Law can be found on Councils Website: http://www.wattlerange.sa.gov.au/page.aspx?u=584 Written submissions should be addressed to the Wattle Range Council and posted to the following address before the close at 5pm on Wednesday 30th April 2014: • PO Box 27, Millicent SA 5280; or left at • the 'Civic Centre', George Street, Millicent • Beachport Visitor Information Centre - Millicent Road, Beachport • Penola Visitor Information Centre - 27 Arthur Street, Penola For further information in relation to Cat Management Strategy and the draft Cat By-Law can be obtained by contacting Mr John Best at the Millicent Office on (08) 8733 0900 Peter Harriott CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER 644986 642834 639622